Hoist & Garage has entered a new chapter, bringing together the people, experience, and capabilities of AHS, Liftech, and Treadway Equipped under one name. The combined business gives automotive workshops a complete range of equipment, installation, servicing, and certification from a single, stronger team.
The expanded operation brings together complementary areas of expertise. Treadway Equipped has supplied workshops with equipment from established international manufacturers, while Hoist & Garage has built extensive practical knowledge installing, servicing, and certifying vehicle hoists. AHS and Liftech add further technical expertise and service capability.
For workshop owners, that means fewer gaps between buying equipment, arranging installation, and securing ongoing technical support. Instead, they deal with one team that understands both the equipment and the environment it needs to perform in.
More than picking a machine
For workshop owners, investing in equipment is about more than choosing a machine from a catalogue. It means finding the right solution for the workshop, having it installed correctly, and knowing experienced support will be available throughout its working life.
Whether a customer is replacing one essential machine, introducing a new service, or planning a complete workshop fit-out, Hoist & Garage can provide support from the earliest stages of a project through to installation and ongoing maintenance.
Closer to customers
With the combined people and capabilities of AHS, Liftech, and Treadway Equipped, Hoist & Garage now operates New Zealand’s largest fleet of mobile workshop-equipment technicians. With team members based across the country, servicing, certification, and technical support sit closer to customers’ workshop doors when they need them.
“Bringing these businesses together gives our customers access to a much broader pool of workshop-equipment knowledge and practical experience,” says Loren Bill, Director of Sales. “Our goal is to make it easier for workshops to get the right equipment, have it installed properly and keep it operating safely and reliably.”
The change also gives the business a stronger foundation for future growth. With its people and services operating under one name, Hoist & Garage is better positioned to support workshops with equipment selection, installation, preventative maintenance, repairs, and ongoing compliance.
Customers will continue to deal with familiar people, now backed by the resources, reach, and expertise of a larger combined team.
Experience you can put to work
After decades specifying, installing, servicing, and certifying equipment in workshops across New Zealand, the Hoist & Garage team knows that no two workshops operate in quite the same way. Its advice is grounded in practical experience of what works on the workshop floor.
Workshop equipment is a significant investment. The right choice can improve workflow, create new revenue opportunities, and help technicians work more efficiently. The wrong choice can create bottlenecks, restrict the vehicles a workshop can service, or leave valuable equipment underused.
That is why good advice begins with understanding the workshop, not simply recommending a machine.
The teams behind Hoist & Garage, Liftech, AHS, and Treadway Equipped have spent countless hours working inside independent workshops, tyre shops, dealerships, and larger service operations like AA Service Centres. They know space is often limited, downtime is expensive, and every piece of equipment needs to earn its place.
Finding the right fit
Through Treadway Equipped, the combined team brings extensive experience specifying and recommending workshop equipment. How the workshop operates, the services it provides, available space, expected use, and future plans all help determine the right solution.
It means Hoist & Garage can recommend equipment suited to the customer’s operation, not simply what happens to be in the catalogue.
Just about every hoist you can think of
The combined technical team has installed, serviced, or repaired just about every vehicle-hoist brand found in New Zealand, and has the manuals to prove it.
That experience is especially valuable when a hoist develops a fault, a workshop has a wide range of brands, or the original supplier is no longer available. Technicians can draw on decades of technical knowledge, documentation, and hands-on experience to find the right path forward.
Service history carried forward
Equipment records and servicing histories held within existing asset-management systems will be carried forward. This gives customers continuity, while helping the Hoist & Garage team understand previous work and plan future servicing and certification.
Together, this equipment knowledge, technical experience, and service history give Hoist & Garage a deeper understanding of both the machines it supports and the workshops that depend on them.
It is a new chapter for Hoist & Garage, but the purpose remains straightforward: helping New Zealand workshops operate safely, efficiently, and confidently.
